Updated Freeware: April 15, 2023
Sat, Apr 15, 2023AllDup 4.5.40 - freeware tool for searching and removing file duplicates on your Windows computer. The fast search algorithm find duplicates of any file type, e.g., text, pictures, music or movies. Portable.
Listed in: Freeware/Utilities/File-managementArasan 23.5 - strong chess playing program.
Listed in: Freeware/Games-and-Fun/Board-gamesAskAdmin 2.0 - freeware tool to simply block access to chosen applications, files, and folder contents. It can block Microsoft Store, Microsoft EDGE, Google Chrome, Skype, built-in apps (e.g. UWP), CMD & BAT files/scripts, reg data and more.
Listed in: Freeware/Utilities/SecurityBlender 3.5 - free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline-modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation.
Listed in: Freeware/Graphics-and-Drawing/CAD-softwareCalibre 6.15.1 - open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books.
Listed in: Freeware/UtilitiesCopyQ 7.0.0 - an advanced clipboard manager with editing and scripting features. It monitors system clipboard and saves its content in customized tabs.
Listed in: Freeware/Utilities/ClipboardCudaText 1.190.1 - a really fast cross-platform opensource text editor. It is extensible by Python add-ons: plugins, linters, code tree parsers, external tools. Syntax parser is feature-rich, from EControl engine.
Listed in: Freeware/Development-tools/EditorsCurrPorts 2.71 - display the list of all currently opened TCP/IP and UDP ports on your local computer. For each port in the list, information about the process that opened the port is also displayed, including the process name, full path of the process, version information of the process (product name, file description, and so on), the time that the process was created, and the user that created it. In addition, CurrPorts allows you to close unwanted TCP connections, kill the process that opened the ports, and save the TCP/UDP ports information to HTML file , XML file, or to tab-delimited text file. CurrPorts also automatically mark with pink color suspicious TCP/UDP ports owned by unidentified applications.
Listed in: Freeware/Utilities/SystemDBeaver 23.0.2 - a multi-platform database tool that supports all popular databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Sybase, MS Access, Teradata, Firebird, Apache Hive, Phoenix, Presto, etc.
Listed in: Freeware/Development-toolsDouble Commander 1.0.11 - a free (free for business use too) cross platform open source file manager with two panels side by side. It has many great features like: tabbed interface, built in viewer and editor, archives support, multi rename tool and more.
Listed in: Freeware/Utilities/File-management/File-managerseM Client 9.2.1735.0 - a fully-featured email client for Windows and macOS with a clean and easy-to-use interface that also offers features for calendars, tasks, contacts, notes, and chat. Free for non-commercial use.
Listed in: Freeware/Internet-and-Network/EmailFireAlpaca 2.10.1 - totally free paint tool for both Windows and Mac. Fast, easy to use, lots of tools. If you still did not find the best Adobe Photoshop alternative, try this one.
Listed in: Freeware/Graphics-and-Drawing/EditorsFree Evolutionary Timetabling software 6.9.0 - program to automatically generate the timetable of a faculty or high-school. Licensed under GNU/GPL (free software, open source).
Listed in: FreewareFreeciv 3.0.7 - turn-based multiplayer free strategy game, in which each player becomes the leader of a civilization, fighting to obtain the ultimate goal: To become the greatest civilization.
Listed in: Freeware/Games-and-Fun/StrategyFreeFileSync 12.2 - a folder comparison and file synchronization software that creates and manages backup copies of all your important files. Instead of copying every file every time, FreeFileSync determines the differences between a source and a target folder and transfers only the minimum amount of data needed.
Listed in: Freeware/Utilities/BackupGnuCash 4.13 - personal and small-business financial-accounting software freely licensed under the GNU GPL. Designed to be easy to use, yet powerful and flexible, GnuCash allows you to track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses. As quick and intuitive to use as a checkbook register, it is based on professional accounting principles to ensure balanced books and accurate reports.
Listed in: Freeware/Personal-and-Home/Home-financeHwinfo 7.42 - comprehensive freeware tool for hardware analysis, monitoring and reporting for Windows.
Listed in: Freeware/Utilities/System/System-infoImage Glass 8.8.4.4 - a lightweight, versatile image viewer that supports more than 70 formats including PSD and RAW.
Listed in: Freeware/Graphics-and-Drawing/ViewingKstars 3.6.4 - open source astronomical tool that provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time. The display includes up to 100 million stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects,all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets, asteroids, supernovae, and satellites.
Listed in: Freeware/Education-and-Science/AstronomyLibreOffice 7.5.2 - opensource office productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and Linux, that gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base. One of the very few free tools to edit PDF files.
Listed in: Freeware/Business-and-OfficeLosslessCut 3.54.0 - a simple and very fast tool for lossless trimming/cutting of video and audio files. Great for rough cutting of large video files.
Listed in: Freeware/Multimedia/VideoMinetest 5.7.0 - an infinite-world block sandbox game and a game engine, inspired by InfiniMiner and Minecraft.
Listed in: Freeware/Games-and-FunMonkeys Audio 10.08 - fast and easy way to compress digital music. Unlike traditional methods such as mp3, ogg, or lqt that permanently discard quality to save space, Monkeys Audio only makes perfect, bit-for-bit copies of your music.
Listed in: Freeware/Multimedia/ConvertingMozilla Thunderbird 102.9.1 - free, open-source and cross-platform mail client for most operating systems including, but not limited to, Windows, Linux and Macintosh. It is based on the Mozilla codebase. It is a robust and easy to set up and use client, similar to competing products like Outlook Express, but with some major advantages such as junk mail classification.
Listed in: Freeware/Internet-and-Network/EmailMP3Tag 3.20 - an easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of audio files. It supports batch tag-editing of ID3v1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, iTunes MP4, WMA, Vorbis Comments and APE tags for multiple files at once.
Listed in: Freeware/Multimedia/AudioNotepad++ 8.5.2 - source code editor (and Notepad replacement) which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment.
Listed in: Freeware/Development-tools/EditorsOcenAudio 3.11.23 - a cross-platform, easy to use, fast and functional audio editor.
Listed in: Freeware/Multimedia/Audio/Audio-ProductionPaint.NET 5.0.3 - image and photo manipulation software for Windows. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and more. Beware: there is no text-editing layer in default install. You need to install a plugin.
Listed in: Freeware/Graphics-and-Drawing/EditorsPixia 6.61e - painting tool made exclusively for full color graphics with layers and masks functions.
Listed in: Freeware/Graphics-and-Drawing/EditorsPopMan 1.3.18 - a POP3 and IMAP4 manager that can be used to list all e-mails received on your incoming mail server, without having to load these mails completely and delete spam e-mails directly from the server.
Listed in: Freeware/Internet-and-Network/EmailPotPlayer 230405 - powerful multimedia player that supports a variety of different video codecs and formats.
Listed in: Freeware/Multimedia/PlayersProcess Explorer 17.04 - shows detailed information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.
Listed in: Freeware/Utilities/System/MonitoringPSPad 5.5.1 (783) - programmers editor with built in FTP client, macro recorder, templates, HEX editor, syntax highlighting, spell checker and unlimited length of edited text.
Listed in: Freeware/Development-tools/EditorsQCAD 3.28 - open-source 2D CAD system. The developers main goals are to build a stable, fast and easy to use CAD for everyone.
Listed in: Freeware/Graphics-and-Drawing/CAD-softwareRevo Uninstaller 2.4.4 - helps you to remove any unwanted application installed on your computer. With its advanced and fast algorithm, Revo Uninstaller analyzes an application’s data before uninstall and scans after you uninstall an application. After the program’s regular uninstaller runs, you can remove additional unnecessary files, folders and registry keys that are usually left over on your computer. Even if you have a broken installation, Revo Uninstaller scans for an application’s data on your hard disk drives and in the Windows registry and shows all found files, folders and registry items so you can delete them.
Listed in: Freeware/Utilities/File-management/Uninstalling-and-Drive-cleaningRufus 3.22 - simple utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives from ISOs.
Listed in: Freeware/UtilitiesSepPDF 3.65 - split multiple pages PDF into individual single PDF files for each page .
Listed in: Freeware/Business-and-Office/Word-processing/PDFSoundSwitch 6.6.0 - simple tool to switch your playback and recording devices using simple hotkeys.
Listed in: Freeware/Multimedia/AudioStellarium 23.1 - free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
Listed in: Freeware/Education-and-Science/AstronomySyncthing 1.23.4 - open source program for continuous file synchronization. It can synchronize files between two or more computers.
Listed in: Freeware/Utilities/BackupTightVNC 2.8.79 - client/server software package allowing remote network access to graphical desktops. Enhanced version of VNC.
Listed in: Freeware/Internet-and-NetworkTixati 3.17 - simple and easy to use Bittorrent client.
Listed in: Freeware/Internet-and-Network/File-sharingTux Paint 0.9.29 - drawing program for young children. It has a simple interface and fixed canvas size, and provides access to previous images using a thumbnail browser.
Listed in: Freeware/Graphics-and-Drawing/EditorsUltra Adware Killer 10.7.6.0 - a powerful adware and malware remover for Windows, which has the ability to scan all the users in a system.
Listed in: Freeware/Utilities/Security/Spyware-protectionUnciv 4.6.0 - an opensource reimplementation of the most famous civilization-building game ever. Build your civilization, research technologies, expand your cities and defeat your foes!
Listed in: Freeware/Games-and-Fun/StrategyVirtual Moon Atlas 8.0 - astronomy freeware tool to visualize the appearance of the Moon for any date and time, to pilot telescopes with computerized mounts on the Moon and to study in detail the lunar formations using a database of over a million entries and a strong image library of almost 9000 photos.
Listed in: Freeware/Education-and-Science/AstronomyVisual Studio Code 1.77 - great source-code editor developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux and macOS. Released as open-source. Highly customizable. Supports debugging, embedded Git control and GitHub, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, snippets and much more.
Listed in: Freeware/Development-tools/EditorsVisual Subst 5.2 - small tool that allows you to associate the most accessed directories with virtual drives. It uses the same API similar to the console ‘subst’ utility, but makes it easier to create and remove virtual drives in a GUI way.
Listed in: Freeware/Utilities/File-managementWebChangeMonitor 23.03 - opensource tool to monitor defined web pages and track changes.
Listed in: Freeware/Internet-and-NetworkWinScan2PDF 8.55 - simple tool to scan documents and save them on your computer as a PDF by using any installed scanner.
Listed in: Freeware/Business-and-OfficeWinStars 3.0.283 - complete planetarium, showing you the appearance of the sky, as seen from anywhere on Earth, for any date.
Listed in: Freeware/Education-and-Science/AstronomyWPS Office 11.2.0.11516 - complete office suite with PDF editor and high compatibility with Microsoft Office, Google Docs and Adobe PDF.
Listed in: Freeware/Business-and-OfficeXMedia Recode 3.5.7.7 - tool that can convert almost all known audio and video formats, including 3GP, 3GPP, 3GPP2, AAC, AC3, ADTS, AMR, ASF, AVI, AVISynth, DVD, FLAC, FLV, H.261, H.263, H.264, H.265, M4A , M1V, M2V, M4V, Matroska (MKV), MMF, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, TS, TRP, MP2, MP3, MP4, MP4V, MOV, QT, OGG, PSP, RM, (S ) VCD, SWF, VOB, WAV, WebM, WMA and WMV.
Listed in: Freeware/Multimedia/ConvertingZortam Mp3 Media Studio 30.55 - all in one MP3 tool. It includes MP3 organizer/ID3 tag editor, CD ripper with CDDB/ID3/Lyric/Cover support, WAV/MP3 and MP3/WAV conveter, MP3 volume normalizer, playlist manager, batch lyrics and cover finder, karaoke.
Listed in: Freeware/Multimedia/Audio